News tagged with girl scout
One box of Girl Scout Cookies worth $15 billion
Scientists can make graphene out of just about anything with carbon -- even Girl Scout Cookies.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Cookies or careers?
Nearly 5 million American children participate in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, but until now no one has looked at the gender messages young people get when they start collecting those coveted badges.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Researcher finds Girl Scout meetings provide an opportunity to increase girls' physical activity
Girls typically are less physically active than boys, but a Kansas State University researcher has found that organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting to get girls moving early in life and to develop lifelong ...
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Young people of the sixties’ leisure choices much like those today
A study carried out by a University of Glasgow research team in the 1960s into young people’s leisure activities reveals that they are much like those today. Most of them watched television.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Half of teens shy, but for a few it's more serious
Does your teen show normal nerves about the weekend party, or always stay home? Nearly half of teenagers say they're shy, perhaps a bit surprising in our say-anything society. But a government study finds a small fraction ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Hot nickel nudges graphene: Study simplifies manufacture of semiconducting bilayer graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- By heating metal to make graphene, Rice University researchers may warm the hearts of high-tech electronics manufacturers.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Mobile payments first step in merging phones, keys, wallets into one device
You're in the checkout line ready to pay for the items in your shopping cart.
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Video games may help with boys' classroom struggles
Studies during the past decade have shown elementary school boys are struggling -- falling behind academically while also being diagnosed with learning disabilities and getting in trouble at school at far greater rates than ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Smartphones take charge: Small merchants expand their sales with mobile credit card services
Coming soon to a garage sale near you: "All major credit cards accepted."
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Girl Scout cookies go high-tech: Smartphone sales
(AP) -- The Girl Scouts were selling their cookies the old-fashioned way, pulling a creaky-wheeled red wagon laden with Thin Mints and Samoas down a suburban street. But the affair took a decidedly 21st-century ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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A race against time to find Apollo 14's lost voyagers
In communities all across the US, travelers that went to the moon and back with the Apollo 14 mission are living out their quiet lives. The voyagers in question are not astronauts. They're "moon trees."
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Tracking Ticks via Satellite
Finding a tick usually involves a squeamish self-examination - carefully rubbing fingertips through the scalp, meticulously scanning the body, and groaning "eyeww" if a little bloodsucker is discovered.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2010 |
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Geocaching combines technology, the outdoors and the spirit of the hunt
It's been 10 years since HackAttack and Ma Bell planted one of the longest-active geocaches in the country and the oldest in Texas -- known as Tombstone, in Arlington -- but since then it has been found 342 times and counting.
May 18, 2010 |
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